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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






2. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






3. A character struggles against some outside force.






4. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






5. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






6. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






7. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






8. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






9. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






10. The person who 'tells' the story.






11. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






12. A poem that tells a story.






13. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






14. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






15. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






16. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






17. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






18. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






19. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






20. The dictionary meaning of a word.






21. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






22. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






23. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






24. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






25. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






26. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






27. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






28. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






29. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






30. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






31. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






32. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






33. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






34. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






35. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






36. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






37. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






38. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






39. The time and place of a story or play.






40. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






41. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






42. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






43. A three-line stanza.






44. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






45. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






46. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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47. Broken down acts.






48. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






49. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






50. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.